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Biologists are gluing hundreds of placards to the tops of seawalls this week in Brevard and Volusia counties that caution anglers and boaters not to feed dolphins or discard fishing gear into their coastal environment. “An entanglement [with fishing line] can act as a knife that can cut their appendages,...

Biologists installed educational placards along piers, docks, sea walls and boat ramps of the Indian River Lagoon, with the hope that people seeing them will stop feeding wild dolphins and safely recycle fishing line.

Biologists installed educational placards along piers, docks, sea walls and boat ramps of the Indian River Lagoon, with the hope that people seeing them will stop feeding wild dolphins and safely recycle fishing line.

Entertainment

Solar eclipse viewing in Florida will provide some great views — leading to events around Metro Orlando as the moon blocks more than 80 percent of the sun. Here’s a compilation of some viewing parties or good spots to take in the sight — with proper glasses to protect your eyes’ health, of course...

Local and State News

A patch of churning clouds and storms east of the Caribbean formed into Tropical Storm Harvey on Thursday evening. It has been given a 100 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone over the next two days. It’s also expected to become a hurricane by Monday morning. At this point it is no threat...

CBS4's Dave Warren Reports on three tropical systems making their way across the Atlantic.

CBS4's Dave Warren Reports on three tropical systems making their way across the Atlantic.

Central Florida Business

The Orlando area is among five U.S. cities with more than 15,000 hotel rooms planned, according to industry data tracker STR. That’s a surge in the number of rooms planned since STR’s reports this spring, which projected 9,904 rooms just a few months ago. Most of the surge is due to Universal Orlando...

Travel

The 2017 edition of the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival looms: The first day of the 75-day event is Aug. 31, the earliest start in its history. Sentinel food writer Lauren Delgado and I had sneak peeks of some of the fare by festival officials this week. If Epcot fests are becoming old...

Chef Gregg Hannon talks about some throwback foods coming to the 2017 event

Chef Gregg Hannon talks about some throwback foods coming to the 2017 event

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Opinion

The Department of Veterans Affairs has a problem. In 2014, after revelations of shockingly long wait times for veterans with serious ailments, it set up a program to let some of them go to doctors outside the VA system. Did it work? The Veterans Choice Program has been so popular that it is on...

Health & Science

Don't have solar specs to watch Monday's Great American Eclipse on Aug. 21? Join the crowd. Protective eye wear is proving to be a hot commodity. Stores and online outlets are sold out. Don't bark at the moon. Instead, grab a colander or cereal box to make your own viewing equipment to safely watch...

Schools & Education

The Orange County School Board likely will join a planned lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of several sections of a controversial education law passed by the Legislature this spring. All eight members of the board expressed support for a legal challenge at a meeting Tuesday, saying they...

Nation/World

Dina Chernick had just arrived for breakfast Thursday at a Jewish deli in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood, but she already had a bad case of indigestion. She could thank President Trump for that. “Here’s this guy and he’s talking about uniting the country and then he makes these terribly divisive...